A Scottish gangster who orchestrated a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £100m from South America in boxes of bananas has had his prison sentence cut by almost four years.
Jamie “Iceman” Stevenson was given a 20-year jail term after admitting heading up the scheme, which was foiled at Dover in September 2020.
However, judges deemed the sentence to be “disproportionate” and cut it to 16 years on appeal.
Stevenson pleaded guilty in October to being involved in the supply of cocaine.
He also admitted to a plot to flood Scotland with millions of Etizolam tablets, known as street valium, from a factory in Kent.
He was sentenced to 12 years for the cocaine charge and eight years for the street valium offence.
Lord Ericht ordered the jail terms to be served consecutively because he believed the offences were “different” to each other.
